Open AccessSamson & Delilah Revisited
Author(s) -
Jacinta Bailey
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
new emerging scholars in australian indigenous studies.
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2208-1232
DOI - 10.5130/nesais.v2i1.1476
Subject(s) - pride , romance , government (linguistics) , relevance (law) , consciousness , resilience (materials science) , psychological resilience , sociology , history , psychoanalysis , political science , gender studies , psychology , philosophy , social psychology , law , epistemology , physics , linguistics , thermodynamics
Warwick Thornton’s Samson and Delilah (2009) is an unnerving and brutal portrayal of a rural Australian reality; one that we can no longer simply ignore.
Amidst the governments failing targets to ‘close the gap’ for Aboriginal Australians, Thornton’s 2009 film has a newfangled relevance within public consciousness. Samson and Delilah is much more than an adolescent romance; it is a stark contrast of Australian pride and failures, a bleak and truthful demonstration of where systematic government failure has led, and, a simultaneous celebration of the survival and resilience of the Aboriginal peoples.